CSEA: DEC is promoting amid the layoffs X3

This just in from the Civil Service Employees Association: the Department of Environmental Conservation has hired promoted 36 top level people since July, including 18 with six-figure salaries.

Update: DEC Spokesman Yancey Roy noted that the people haven’t been hired by the agency, instead they have been promoted into jobs that had been vacated. We wrote about this a while back — the phenomenon in which people are being promoted into higher positions to fill slots vacated by retirements, with the lower positions remaining empty.

The exception, listed below is DEC’s acting commissioner Peter Iwanowicz who comes from the governor’s office.

“These are not new hires. This list represents existing DEC staff moving into new positions to fill vacancies at the agency. CSEA leadership is once again trying to distract from the fact that they were unwilling to negotiate with this administration to achieve workforce savings required by this budget and avoid State worker layoffs. Governor Paterson proposed a number of methods for achieving workforce savings this year, and the unions rejected every single one of them while failing to provide realistic savings alternatives.”

Here’s the list that CSEA got under the state Freedom of Information Law: